Brook Lopez

It's a hard way to do it.

So your feet and your knees are fine?

Like I would think it's the feet.

I would think the feet would be the thing.

And it'll just cripple everything.

It'll just debilitate even your happiness if you're in back pain.

Like every day you have to spend how many hours on the precise maintenance care of your body to make sure that everything is humming?

Yeah.

Boring?

You get tired of it?

Or it's just, it's your life now.

It's your craft and it's what you have to do.

But it's a lot of work for what amounts to 30 minutes of action every couple of days.

It's a lot of... It really is.

I have been told, you correct me if I have this wrong, that you went from hothead early in your career, that you had some temper issues...

to by the time in Chicago at the end, you're preventing a mutiny because you're the reasonable voice in the room.

Do I have that?

Do I have that?

Okay, so take me through that timeline, what you did to become a savvy veteran after being immature at the beginning.

But your temper was born of the frustration of it's hard to keep up?